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Health Coverage by Race and Ethnicity: The Potential Impact of the Affordable Care Act
Issue BriefExecutive Summary One of the key goals of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to reduce the number of uninsured through a Medicaid expansion and the creation of health insurance exchange marketplaces with advance premium tax credits to help moderate-income individuals pay for this coverage.
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Medicaid’s Role for People with Dementia
Issue BriefThis issue brief describes Medicaid’s role for people with dementia, including how they qualify, what services Medicaid provides, and what their utilization and spending is, and builds on our work examining Medicaid’s role for vulnerable populations and Medicaid's role in the provision of long-term services and supports.
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Explaining Health Reform: The New Rules for Determining Income Under Medicaid in 2014
Issue BriefTo provide individuals and families access to affordable, high-quality health care, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) expands Medicaid to cover low-income adults and children with incomes up to 133 percent of the poverty line.
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Implementing the ACA’s Medicaid-Related Health Reform Provisions After the Supreme Court’s Decision
Issue BriefOn June 28, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Raising Medicare’s Eligibility Age: A Complex Proposition
Event Date:EventThe Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation present a briefing to discuss the complexities of raising the age for Medicare eligibility.
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Performance Measurement Under Health Reform: Proposed Measures For Eligibility and Enrollment Systems and Key Issues and Trade-offs to Consider
Issue BriefThe adoption of new eligibility and enrollment requirements under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides states and the federal government an important opportunity to implement a meaningful set of performance measures for eligibility and enrollment systems.
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Challenges with Implementing Work Requirements: Findings from a Survey of State Medicaid Programs
Issue BriefTo better understand how states are preparing for Medicaid work requirements, states were asked to discuss anticipated challenges to implementing work requirements by the end of 2026, including related system changes and data matching.
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New KFF Resource Tracks Developments in States’ Section 1115 Medicaid Waivers
News ReleaseA new resource from the Kaiser Family Foundation enables users to keep abreast of Section 1115 Medicaid waivers that are pending or have been approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Who Are the 7 Million Nonelderly Adults with Disabilities in Medicaid and What Would the House GOP Bill to Restructure Medicaid Financing and Repeal the Affordable Care Act Mean for Them?
News ReleaseA new brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation explains the role that Medicaid plays for nearly 7 million nonelderly adults with disabilities in the U.S. and explores what the American Health Care Act could mean for their health care and coverage.